Archive for July 14th, 2009
Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2009
MANILA, 14 July 2009 (IRIN) – Displacement levels on the war-ravaged Philippine island of Mindanao have risen to more than 430,000, according to data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other sources.
This marks a significant increase in the number of internally displaced people (IDPs), from an estimate of 290,000 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in mid-June.
However, DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral, whose office is the lead agency for IDPs, stressed the scale of the problem was not enough to categorize it as a humanitarian crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Blogroll, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Country, Displacement, Government, Insurgents, Other, Philippines, Refugee Camps, Region, Southeast Asia, Tactics, Type of Harm, United Nations | Tagged: bombings, IDP camps, IDPs, Internally Displaced Persons, MILF, Mindanao, Moro Islamist Liberation Front, Philippines | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2009
13 Jul 2009 16:58:22 GMT
Source: UNHCR
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YAR HUSSAIN CAMP, Pakistan, July 13 (UNHCR) – For years, Mariam, a young mother of six from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, was obliged by tradition and custom to remain at home looking after her children and keeping house for her husband, Shaukat.
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Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Displacement, Government, Insurgents, NGOs, Other, Pakistan, Refugee Camps, Region, Taliban, Type of Harm, United Nations | Tagged: IDP, IDP camps, internally displaced people, Internally Displaced Persons, Mingora, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Refugee Camps, Swat Valley, United Nations, Yar Hussain Camp | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2009
14 July 2009
By Nikolaus von Twickel / The Moscow Times
President Dmitry Medvedev pledged support for South Ossetia’s separatist leadership during a surprise visit Monday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili condemned as Russia’s “most immoral and shameful precedent in centuries.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Foreign Aid, Georgia, Government, Military, Other, Property Damage, Region, Type of Harm | Tagged: Abhkazia, aid, Dmitri A. Medvedev, European Union, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, rebuilding, Russia, Russian troops, south ossetia, Vladimir Putin | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2009
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 13, 2009
ABOARD U.S.S. RONALD REAGAN, in the Gulf of Oman — After taking repeated fire from Taliban fighters holed up in a building last week, a group of American Marines in southern Afghanistan called in airstrikes to wipe out the threat. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Air Strike, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Country, Government, Insurgents, Military, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: Afghanistan, airstrikes, American Marines, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, F/A-18 fighter pilots, Marines, Stanley A. McChrystal, Taliban, Taliban fighters, United States, us | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2009
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: July 14, 2009
KABUL — A helicopter crash in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan killed at least six civilians on Tuesday and two United States Marines were reported killed in the same region, as NATO troops and Afghan Army forces pressed an offensive against Taliban insurgents. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Contractors, Country, Government, ISAF, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, Region, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: Afghan Army, Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian contractors, civilian deaths, Helmand, Insurgents, Kabul, Lashkar Gah, militants, NATO troops, Taliban, United States Marines, US Marines | Leave a Comment »
